All Black Everything Lyrics

[Intro]
Sometimes, you just gotta—
Go!

[Chorus]
You would never know what you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy, or isn't he?
See I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything

[Verse 1]
Uh, and we ain't get exploited
White man ain't fear it so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it
Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by W.E.B. Du Bois
Were no reconstructions, civil war got avoided
Little black Sambo grows up to be a lawyer
Extra extra on the news stands
Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
Malcolm Little dies as an old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Qu'ran
President Bush sends condolences from Iran
Where Fox News reports live

That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize
[Chorus]
You would never know what you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy, or isn't he?
See I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything

[Verse 3]
Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy
I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be

Now we can't do nothing about the past
But we can do something about the future that we have
We can make it fast or we can make it last
Every woman queen and every man a king and
When those color lines come we can't see between

We just close our eyes 'til its all black everything

[Chorus]
You would never know what you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy, or isn't he?
See I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything
[Outro]
All black everything
Yeah
All black everything
Yeah

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Genius Annotation

Single off of Lupe Fiasco’s third album, Lasers – Jay-Z made it a hot line, Lupe made it a hot song.

The song explores what may have happened if black people were never enslaved and racism was non-existent

Produced by The Buchanans; Lupe says it’s his favorite song off of Lasers.

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